re: Racist-Track? People need to chill.

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I was getting something at the gas station and had a black male cashier. I asked how his day was going and he answered something like “getting after the hustle.” I said “attaboy” and he stopped and put a finger in my face and said “don’t call me boy.” I said sorry, it was just an expression and he went off about white people calling him boy all his life.

While he was being ridiculous as was the lady in the OP, I’m sure there have been enough racist interactions of people calling him boy or somebody throwing money on the counter for it to be triggering to them.

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That is exactly why I do not accept being called "white boy" by a man of color.

I would never ever call a black man "boy", and I don't negotiate that fricking word/phrase/slur or give license to call me white boy from any one, particularly with men of color. This is a gross violation of the ancient contract of mutual respect with me.

Call me white devil, white mother fricker if you MUST slur, any thing but white boy.

I do not know just how this came to be, but something snapped in my brain with that word never ever to be rationalized, and in some tragic way, it is the closest thing that I am truly willing to die for.

I live under a conscience fear that this attitude may one day place me in a compromised position, but some mother fricker is going to bleed with me that day.

If you can't intellectually accept my explanation that "white boy" is the n***** word to me, there will always be a chance that my next explanation may involve me bashing your damn skull into a powder so fine, you would need to alter the fricking Mohs scale.